Last August, vandals, cheered on by Greenpeace and other NGOs hostile to crop biotechnology, destroyed a field trial of Golden Rice in the Philippines. The rice has been ready for farmers to use since the turn of the 21st century, yet it is still not available to them. Escalating requirements for testing have stalled its release for more than a decade. Now with those hurdles almost overcome, opponents of precision plant breeding have taken to lawlessness. A group of the world’s top scientists have come together under the banner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to issue a joint statement condemning this behavior, reaffirming the organization’s commitment for an evidence-based evaluation of this new technology: